How to Install and Uninstall clamav Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "clamav" package

Please follow the steps below to install clamav on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                clamav
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "clamav" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall clamav on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                clamav
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the clamav package on Kali Linux

Package: clamav
Version: 1.0.5+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 27455
Maintainer: ClamAV Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: clamav-freshclam (>= 1.0.5+dfsg) | clamav-data, libc6 (>= 2.34), libclamav11 (>= 1.0.5), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2), libjson-c5 (>= 0.15), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
Recommends: clamav-base
Suggests: libclamunrar, clamav-docs
Size: 5517808
SHA256: 5125248d259de1ab5d84495dd1520d35bd2664e17fb472bd8d19f84605d93054
SHA1: 2fb33dafe35cf92699061828e6c43b9966d427e8
MD5sum: 853c243fc8fc4eb328ce5e1398bec015
Description: anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of
this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment
scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable
multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line
scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via
the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based
on libclamav, which can be used by other software.
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This package contains the command line interface. Features:
- built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, Tar,
Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others;
- built-in support for almost all mail file formats;
- built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files
compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and
obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others;
- built-in support for popular document formats including Microsoft
Office and Mac Office files, HTML, RTF and PDF.
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For scanning to work, a virus database is needed. There are two options
for getting it:
- clamav-freshclam: updates the database from Internet. This is
recommended with Internet access.
- clamav-data: for users without Internet access. The package is
not updated once installed. The clamav-getfiles package allows
creating custom packages from an Internet-connected computer.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.clamav.net/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, security::antivirus, use::scanning, works-with::file,
works-with::mail
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/clamav/clamav_1.0.5+dfsg-1_amd64.deb